📺 Dailymotion Video Transcript & Subtitle Scraper

Get any public Dailymotion video's transcript — no login, no AI transcription. Dailymotion publishes subtitle tracks (often auto-generated) for its videos, and this actor reads them: full transcript text, timestamped segments, and SRT/VTT, plus title, owner, and duration. Pass video URLs or a search query.

Because it reads Dailymotion's own subtitles, there's no speech-to-text compute — it's fast and cheap.

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What does it do?

For each Dailymotion video (by URL/ID or found via search) it returns:

• 📝 Full transcript (plain text) — always included
• ⏲️ Timestamped segments — {start, end, text}
• 🎬 SRT / VTT subtitles
• 🏷️ Title, owner, duration, language

No ASR, no API key — it reads the subtitle track Dailymotion serves.

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What data does it extract?

For every video: video_id, url, title, owner, duration_sec, language, transcript, segments[], srt, vtt, segment_count, is_new (monitor), scraped_at.

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Who is it for?

• ✍️ Content & localization teams turning Dailymotion videos into text and subtitles.
• 🤖 AI / RAG builders assembling spoken-word datasets.
• 🔎 Researchers & monitors searching video content by keyword.

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How to use it (step by step)

1. Click Try for free.
2. Paste video URLs/IDs — or set a search query.
3. (Optional) set a language and extra formats (srt, vtt, segments).
4. Click Start, open the Dataset tab to view/export.
5. (Optional) set monitorMode + a search query + a Schedule for new videos.

Quick start

{ "videoUrls": ["https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9e2c9y"], "transcriptFormats": ["txt", "srt"] }

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Input

Field	What it does
videoUrls	Dailymotion video URLs / IDs
searchQuery / searchLimit	find videos via the public API
language	subtitle language (or auto)
transcriptFormats	txt · segments · srt · vtt
maxVideos	hard cap per run (0 = unlimited)
monitorMode, alertOnNewVideo	recurring watcher + alerts
webhookUrl, slackWebhookUrl, emailRecipients	alert channels
proxyConfiguration, requestConcurrency	proxy + parallelism

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Output

Each video is one dataset record (fields above). Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS, or fetch via the Apify API. Videos without subtitles are returned with a note (not faked).

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How much does it cost?

Pay-per-event — and with no transcription compute, it's cheap:

Event	What it covers	Suggested price
lot-scraped	each video returned	~$0.003 / video
lot-detail-enriched	each transcript fetched	~$0.003 / video
monitor-run-completed	each scheduled watch run	~$0.05 / run
new-lot-detected	each new video	~$0.02 / video
alert-delivered	each Slack/email/webhook push	~$0.005 / alert

(Final per-event prices are set on the actor's pricing page.)

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How does it work without AI transcription?

Dailymotion's player metadata endpoint exposes each video's subtitle tracks (.srt URLs), including auto-generated captions. This actor reads those subtitles — it does not run speech-to-text, so there's no GPU/compute cost. Videos without subtitles are reported as such.

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Is it legal to scrape Dailymotion transcripts?

This actor reads publicly available subtitle tracks served by Dailymotion's own endpoints. The video content is copyrighted by its uploader. Scraping public data is generally legal, but you are responsible for your use — review Dailymotion's Terms of Service and respect uploaders' rights.

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FAQ

Are the subtitles auto-generated? Often yes (language code like en-auto). Human-authored tracks are used when present; set language to choose.

Is there a Whisper/ASR step? No — it reads Dailymotion's subtitle track, so it's fast and cheap.

Can I get subtitles files? Yes — add srt and/or vtt to transcriptFormats.

How do I export? JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or RSS from the Dataset tab, or via the Apify API.

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Feedback

Want multi-language pulls or channel crawling? Open an issue on the actor.